It’s well known that President Trump and his secretary of health and human services, Tom Price, are hostile to the program, and they are doing what they can to undermine its effectiveness – from cutting advertising and outreach that helps new members sign up, to creating uncertainty about whether the federal government can be counted on to continue to fund subsidies.

Health consumers and health care providers live in parallel universes when it comes to health IT, a smart CMIO friend of mine recently told me. 2015 will be a year when consumers, patients and caregivers pressure providers to converge toward greater convenience, access, transparency and quality using health IT. This health IT forecast for 2015 focuses on the forces that could advance and slow that convergence.

Our audience is made up of medical professionals, Doctors , Nurses, CCG leads, Clinical support staff, NHS managers, Allied Health Professions (AHPs) AHPs are a diverse group of practitioners who deliver high quality care to patients by carrying out assessment, diagnosis, treatment and discharge, across a range of settings in the NHS, Local Authorities, independent and voluntary sectors, breaking down organisational boundaries and are also represented in Health+Care attendees.